“Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?”

— Randolph Sinks Foster

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 306.

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